Letters from Langston

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Letters from Langston
Letters from Langston
Author : Langston Hughes
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Language : English
Release Date : 01 February 2016
ISBN : 9780520285330
Pages : 436 pages
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Letters from Langston by Langston Hughes Book PDF Summary

Langston Hughes, one of America's greatest writers, was an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance whose poems and plays resonate widely today. Accessible, personal, and inspirational, HughesÕs poems portray the African American community in struggle in the context of a turbulent modern United States and a rising black freedom movement. This indispensable volume of letters between Hughes and four leftist confidants sheds vivid light on his life and politics. Letters from Langston begins in 1930 and ends shortly before his death in 1967, providing a window into a unique, self-created world where Hughes lived at ease. This distinctive volume collects the stories of Hughes and his friends in an era of uncertainty and reveals their visions of an idealized worldÑone without hunger, war, racism, and class oppression.

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